HAYES (Charles, Esq.)

, a very singular person,
whose great erudition was so concealed by his modesty,
that his name is known to very few, though his publications
are many. He was born in 1678, and died in 1760,
at 82 years of age. He became distinguished in 1704
by a Treatise of Fluxions, in folio, being we believe the
fir<*> treatise on that science ever published in the English
language; and the only work to which he ever set his
name. In 1710 came out a small 4to pamphlet, in 19
pages, intitled, A New and easy Method to find out the
Longitude from observing the Altitudes of the Celestial
bodies. Also, in 1723, he published, The Moon, a
Philosophical Dialogue; tending to shew, that the moon
is not an opaque body, but has native light of her own.

To a skill in the Greek and Latin, as well as the
modern languages, he added the knowledge of the Hebrew:
and he published several pieces relating to the
translation and chronology of the scriptures. During
a long course of years he had the chief management of
the late African company, being annually elected subgovernor.
But on the dissolution of that company in
1752, he retired to Down in Kent, where he gave himself
up to study; from whence however he returned in
1758, to chambers in Gray's inn, London, where he
died in 1760, as mentioned above.

He left a posthumous work, that was published
in 8vo, under the title of Chronographia Asiatica et
Ægyptiaca &c.

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